Our teacher, Moses, always bore his share in the troubles of the congregation, as it is written, "They took a stone and put it under him." Could they not have given him a chair or a cushion? But then he said, " Since the Israelites are in trouble (during the war with Amalek) lo, I will bear my part with them, for he who bears his portion of the burden will live to enjoy the hour of consolation. Woe to the one who thinks, (Ah, well, I will neglect my duty; who can know whether I bear my part or not; even the stones of his house, aye, the limbs of the trees, shall testify against him, as it is written, ( For the stones will cry from the wall, and the limbs of the trees will testify. >